Study shows accuracy of 90-minute COVID-19 test

DnaNudge’s consumer DNA testing device was re-engineered at the outset of the pandemic to provide a rapid, lab-free reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) COVID-19 testing system. A study led by scientists from Imperial College London and supported by the National Institute for Health Research has confirmed the system’s efficacy.

Consumer tech converted to rapidly test for Covid-19

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In the research, the high-speed CovidNudge tests, which do not require a laboratory and can be performed in cartridges smaller than a mobile phone, were used on 386 NHS staff and patients. The Lab-in-Cartridge rapid testing device was shown to have a high level of accuracy and produced very few false negatives and no false positives. The study, conducted during the peak of COVID-19, is detailed in The Lancet Microbe.